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End of the year means lots of retrospective bullshit. I hope your body is ready.

EDs/OPs in alphabetical order. Mostly because I don’t want to deal with any bitching about ranks.

Best EDs

Gundam Build Fighters

ED

N/A because Japanese copyright holders and Youtube are lousy sacks of shit.

Song

N/A because Japanese copyright holders and Youtube are lousy sacks of shit.

Reason: I like that hand-reachy thing in the beginning.

Hajime no Ippo Rising

ED (Super LQ)

Song

Reason: Cuz it almost made me want to watch the show. Hey everyone who fucking bitched to no end about me not reviewing it, maybe you’d have had more success if you weren’t the only ones to bother with watching it. How’s it feel being old?

Kyoukai no Kanata

ED

Song

Reason: Pigeons are the best of all the great birds.

Miss Monochrome

ED (Not like this normally; image fucked up to avoid copyright controls)

Song

N/A. I dunno if there’s even a full version out yet.

Reason: Cuz it’s a show about some Vocaloid. How the fuck would it not have a good ED?

Non Non Biyori

ED

N/A because Japanese copyright holders and Youtube are lousy sacks of shit.

Song

Reason: I don’t have to explain myself to you.

Samurai Flamenco (ED Alt, episode 10)

ED

N/A. I guess nobody was cool enough to upload this shit to Youtube. And don’t fucking look at me; I don’t have the time to deal with that shit.

Song

N/A. See above.

Reason: Yeah, it was a shitty segue from the end of the episode, and yeah, it was a fucking lazy 10 frame-ED, but goddammit that song was sugoi.

Sekai de Ichiban Tsuyoku Naritai!

ED

Song

Reason: This is proof the show should have been about stupid idol bullshit instead of fucking wrestling. Come on Japan, did you really think I could get off to girls screaming in pain for 24 minutes? I can’t fucking last that long.

Kyoukai no Kanata: good themes, good visuals, meh everything else
Samurai Flamenco: the first ED theme I’ve ever preordered
Machine Doll: not a fan of it in general, but the intro/extro (“hai!”) were entertaining enough for me to merely skip most of the ED

Maybe I need to watch Non Non Biyori since a friend keeps gushing about it, but all she seems capable of saying about it is “cute”.

デートTIME has had a few clean versions on YT, but they’ve all been taken down within a week or two. All I can find now is a bad E4 chop job and some sped up/slowed down full length versions.

I also rather enjoyed Log Horizon’s ED. I admit that half of my enjoyment came from laughing at Yun*chi’s hilarious pronunciation of “zutto”. The closest word to her very clear “zueta” is “tsumeta”, so it became known as the “I’m full!” song at my house. The other half is just the sugar injection after the snooze fest that nearly every episode of Log Horizon has turned out to be.

YZQ is my second-favorite show of the season, but the OP didn’t do much for me. I’d probably be more favorable of it if it didn’t shit out halfway through with the tone shift (right around the hiroiatsumeta/old man council time).

I actually wish the entire thing was just Hime walking around the cardboard cutout town with people appearing over the buildings and doing shit.

The fights are portrayed with a sense of realism. Generic couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Dark_Sage sticks to the currently airing shows with little to no exception. Because of work and site stuff and all that. But should you ever have a sudden desire to visit the classics, Hajime no Ippo should rank among the top of your list.